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Andrew Lawler

Biography

Andrew Lawler

Andrew Lawler is the author of the highly acclaimed WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE WORLD? He is a contributing writer for Science, a contributing editor for Archaeology Magazine, and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Smithsonian and Slate.

Andrew Lawler

Books by Andrew Lawler

In 1587, 115 men, women and children arrived at Roanoke Island on the coast of North Carolina to establish the first English settlement in the New World. But when the new colony's leader returned to Roanoke from a resupply mission, his settlers had vanished, leaving behind only a single clue --- a "secret token" etched into a tree. What happened to the Lost Colony of Roanoke? That question has consumed historians, archaeologists and amateur sleuths for 400 years. In THE SECRET TOKEN, Andrew Lawler sets out on a quest to determine the fate of the settlers, finding fresh leads as he encounters a host of characters obsessed with resolving the enigma.

In WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE WORLD?, science writer Andrew Lawler takes us on an adventure from prehistory to the modern era with an account of the partnership between human and chicken (the most successful of all cross-species relationships). In a masterful combination of historical sleuthing and journalistic exploration on four continents, Lawler reframes the way we feel and think about our most important animal partner --- and, by extension, all domesticated animals, and even nature itself.